Brandon K. Thorp Broward New Times

March 4, 2011

Brandon K. Thorp
Broward New Times
16 NE 4th Street
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33301

RE: “West versus a Muslim” – Some comments on your story in the March 3rd edition. Call me a cockeyed optimist but I thought your title meant something else.

Mr. Thorp,

At the very least the “Muslim supplicant” wasn’t surrounded by louts yelling “You suck” as the Wisconsin state senator was in peaceful Madison 3 days ago. Nor did he hear “You’re fucking dead as the Wisconsin representative heard on the floor of the Wisconsin legislature.

Would I be making my point the hard way if I were to point out that both elected officials are Republican?

As to Congressman West’s “usual parlor game of naming dates of alleged Muslim attacks upon peaceable Christian Europeans” [emphasis mine] Logic would dictate that you believe that they didn’t happen.

Gosh but that’s dumb. Perhaps you think that History began with the Beatles. Perhaps you think that “Can’t we all just get along?” is a good defense policy. Perhaps you don’t think. Tighten your seat belt. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

I hasten to add that “my contempt is not personal”.

732 - 1571 - 1685

Less than 100 years after Mohammed learned of all those infidel virgins waiting for the more adventuresome of his swordsmen Muslim hordes were halfway across Europe. If Charles Martel hadn’t stopped them in 732 would there ever have been a cathedral at Chartres? Would Dante ever have said that “halfway through his journey he found himself in the dark wood of error? Would DaVinci have given us the Last Supper? Would Michelangelo have made marble breathe? Which Muslim country had a Renaissance?

In 1571 a vastly outnumbered Christian fleet routed an Islamic invasion fleet. Lepanto is in Italy. What were the peace loving Muslims doing there?

In 1685 Viennese bakers made the first croissants. To show their contempt for their religion they threw them at the feral Muslim throng besieging their city. I listened to part of Bach’s 6th Brandenburg Concerto this afternoon. If the Muslims had won would I have been able to listen to it? Would it have survived Sharia law? How about Handel? How about Mozart? How about Beethoven? Why were they there?

I search in vain for any Muslim scientific, literary, musical, or cultural accomplishments in the last 1000 years. If there is something that I missed please direct me to a source that will enlighten me.

Your admonition to Congressman West to be “more gentlemanly” is contrary to the rules of engagement laid down by modern American Liberals. Did not every conversation about President Bush begin by comparing him to Hitler? Did they not go downhill from there?

Finally, a check of the passenger manifests on the hi-jacked planes of 9/11, the ones that killed 3,000 people in a most “ungentlemanly” manner, reveals no Patagonians, no Icelanders, and no Baptists brandishing box cutters.

I am sorry – not really – that mentioning the above makes you “uncomfortable”. “We are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on those faces there is no smile.”

Sane men, men who read History, might say it is time to update Cato’s warning. He concluded every speech in the Senate, regardless of the topic, with the words “Cartago delenda est”. Perhaps today’s version should be “Mecca delenda est”.




Kevin Smith